EsquirePete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg Could Make It a Race If He Bills Himself as Biden-Minus-a-Geological-EpochEsquire - By Charles P. PierceI don't know which genius in the upper echelons of the Biden campaign thought it was a good idea to have Joe and Hunter Biden do network TV interviews on the day of a Democratic presidential debate, but
EsquireMick Mulvaney I Knew John Bolton Liked Regime Change, I Just Assumed He Meant OverseasEsquire - By Charles P. PierceI mean, I knew John Bolton believed in regime change, but I always assumed he meant overseas. The mustachioed crazy person who spent about 11 minutes as the national security adviser to El Caudillo del
EsquireTom Steyer Tom Steyer Wants to Get the Money Out of Politics. He'll Spend $100 Million to Do It.Esquire - By Jack Holmes"The question you have to ask,” announced Tom Steyer, the longshot Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential election, “is, do you think the system's broken?" He did not await my answer over lunch
EsquireRudy Giuliani Rudy Giuliani Got Paid Half a Million By His Henchman's Inevitably Named Company, 'Fraud Guarantee'Esquire - By Jack HolmesInternational Man of Stupidity Rudy Giuliani is back at it again, folks. It's been a rough ride over the last few weeks for the artist formerly known as America's Mayor, though he long ago squandered goodwill
EsquireEPA The Trump Administration* Has Surrendered Entirely to IndustryEsquire - By Charles P. PierceOn Saturday, when we moved the shebeen into Joy Reid's studio, I wore a T-shirt that honored the late Frank LaMere, a remarkable man and a Native activist who was central to the defense of the land and
EsquireMatt Gaetz Matt Gaetz Thinks His Audience Is as Big a Box of Rocks as He IsEsquire - By Charles P. PierceIs Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) the biggest schmuck currently gracing the halls of Congress? On Monday morning, Fiona Hill, the administration*'s former Russia expert, came to Capitol Hill to testify
EsquirePolitics We Have All Betrayed the Kurds—Every American, Not Just the President*Esquire - By Charles P. PierceI stopped by Joy Reid's show on Saturday and, in the course of our discussion, Malcolm Nance made a very important point. The betrayal of the Kurds doesn't just fall on El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, and
EsquireDonald Trump The Sick Video Played at a Pro-Trump Conference Is a Glimpse of the Dark Energy in American PoliticsEsquire - By Jack HolmesWhen you call someone or some group The Enemy of the People, the subtext is clear: they must be stopped at all costs. They are enemies of us all! They are obstructing the popular will! Of course, that's
EsquireWorld Leaders The Latest Hero Exposing Trump's Corruption Has a Name, and She Is Not F*cking AroundEsquire - By Charles P. Pierce(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) On Friday, the scandals undermining this administration* and this presidency* like one of those
EsquireDonald Trump Shep Smith Is Leaving Fox News Amid Larger War Over Trump CoverageEsquire - By Jack HolmesFox News announced the departure Friday of Shepard Smith, one of the network's first hires when Roger Ailes launched the cable channel in 1996. He has been with Fox ever since as a reporter and anchor,
EsquireDonald Trump Jr There's One Thing Mitt Romney Could Do for the Good of the Country. 'Help Susan Collins' Is Not It.Esquire - By Charles P. PierceHope do spring eternal, don't it? Politico has the latest pipe dream. Even as he faces a barrage of attacks from the president and his allies, Romney is mapping out plans to play a central role in 2020
EsquireDonald Trump Trump's Minneapolis Rally Was a Demonstration of the Moral Suicide Pact He's Made With His SupportersEsquire - By Jack HolmesIt was surely a swift process for some people. Here's a talk-radio soundboard running for president, yelling about Mexicans and Muslims and how we need a Big, Beautiful Wall to keep Those People out. knows
EsquireWorld Leaders Donald Trump Whipped Up a Slanderous Attack on Ilhan Omar at His Minneapolis RallyEsquire - By Charles P. PierceUpon waking this morning, I am informed by The New York Times that the firm owned by Lev Parnas, one of Rudy Giuliani's HENCHMEN in his Ukrainian adventures, is called Fraud Guarantee, and I would like
EsquirePolitics When You Look at Giuliani's Buddies the First Word That Comes to Mind Is HENCHMENEsquire - By Charles P. PierceLongtime regulars at this shebeen may have noted a new phenomenon hereabouts. It used to be that, if something happened during the day concerning something already posted here, we'd just toss an UPDATE
EsquireNews (U.S.) The Political Systems of This Country Are Woefully Unprepared to Deal With the Climate CrisisEsquire - By Charles P. PierceBeing our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done, and where there's a blind horse that leads you around. We begin
EsquireReza Zarrab The Ukraine Scandal Was the Lid on the Trump Sewer and Now It's All Spilling OutEsquire - By Charles P. PierceNot to repeat myself, but everything about this administration*—how it got to where it is, and how it's operating now that it's there—is an open sewer. This, now, from Bloomberg via Vanity Fair: Bloomberg
EsquirePolitics Two of Rudy Giuliani's Associates Were Just Arrested Because Trumpworld Is an Open SewerEsquire - By Charles P. PierceWell, what to our wondering eyes should appear, on a rainy Thursday morning? It's Rudy Giuliani, with his arse in a crack. From the Wall Street Journal: Two Soviet-born donors to a pro-Trump fundraising
EsquireDonald Trump Watch Mike Pence Wobble Hilariously—and Tellingly—When Pressed on His Role in the Ukraine FiascoEsquire - By Jack HolmesNot much is funny these days as the American republic trudges towards the gallows, prodded along by a half-mad president. Just yesterday, he suggested it's perfectly fine to abandon the Kurds because didn't
EsquireKurdistan The President* Is Having Another Episode. Get the Net.Esquire - By Charles P. PierceAnd we conclude our blog-cast day with these words from...The President* of the United States. The Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand, and somebody wrote a very, very powerful article
EsquirePolitics House Democrats Are Going With 'No Play, No Pay' to Get Trumpists to TestifyEsquire - By Charles P. PierceRep. Mark Pocan finally has made the play that Rep. Elijah Cummings called months ago. Those employees of Camp Runamuck who decline to participate in the impeachment inquiry will find their pay docked.
EsquireMinneapolis-Saint Paul, MN Minneapolis Has Simply Pegged the President* for What He Is: A Notorious DeadbeatEsquire - By Charles P. PierceOne of the heroes of Jimmy Breslin's lucid and wonderful Watergate book is the late John Doar, the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
EsquireSyrian Democratic Forces Syria Update: Turkey Is Blowing the Hell Out of It and the Russians Are CheeringEsquire - By Charles P. PierceEverything you knew was going to happen is happening in northern Syria. Everything the president* should have known was going to happen—or, at the very least, vaguely care about happening, had he a shred
EsquirePolitics Republicans Stick With Trump Because Their Donors Are Getting All the GoodiesEsquire - By Charles P. PierceMan, I can't tell you how many economically anxious former millworkers and coal miners I talked to in in 2016 who told me, flat out, "Man, I can't wait to vote for Trump so all those American corporations
EsquireTrey Gowdy Trey Gowdy Joins the Parade of Trump Lackeys Eager to Debase Themselves Until They're BackstabbedEsquire - By Jack HolmesVarious toads and lackeys are lining up now to sacrifice what's left of their integrity in service to the mad king. It is an incredible spectacle to watch grown men—almost entirely white male Boomers long
EsquireTrump Tower Donald Trump Allegedly Hid Behind a Tapestry to Grope a Woman at Mar-a-Lago in the Early 2000sEsquire - By Barry Levine and Monique El-FaizyIf you thought the Access Hollywood tape was the opening salvo in the story of Donald Trump's transgressions against women, think again. In All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a journalists
EsquireConstitutional Law The White House Stonewall Letter Is a MAGA Rally Draped in a TogaEsquire - By Charles P. PierceI guess if you stay in this racket long enough, you get to see it all. Gaze in awe, now, at The Constitution According to Camp Runamuck. Point One: The president can't be indicted for his crimes because
EsquireWatergate If You Had 'Nixon Got a Raw Deal' on Your Bullshit Legal Arguments Bingo Card, CongratulationsEsquire - By Charles P. PierceThe Department of Justice—William Barr, consigliere—was in court Tuesday defending the president*'s right to keep a lid on the grand-jury evidence developed by the Mueller investigation. And the DOJ presented
EsquirePolitics The Republican Senate Confirmed the Russians Interfered in the 2016 Primaries (!) to Help TrumpEsquire - By Charles P. PierceThe Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Russian ratfcking in the 2016 election was released on Tuesday and it didn't tell us much we didn't already know, or hadn't already intuited, but it told a
EsquireLGBTQ+ The Supreme Court Is Set to Decide Another Landmark Gay Rights Case. But It Isn’t 2015 Anymore.Esquire - By Justin KirklandFour years ago, Vin Testa was the face of a Supreme Court decision. As the justices were set to issue a decision on Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that would make marriage equality a reality for millions
